Amiga GVP PhonePak - fax, voicemail, answerphone

[LoadWB]

alewis wrote:
Hmmm... make that a PPC based Linux version, I doubt the 060 would have the power to do it.

I wouldn't necessarily think that.  I recall having torn apart a few retired PBX systems running CPUs like EC030, one even ran a Z80.  The EC030's were generally voice-mail capable, while the Z80 (IIRC) was mostly switching and had additional hardware for various functions.

[LoadWB]

alewis wrote:

I should have quoted, as I was refering to an Amiga-Linux version of Asterisk VoIP, not voice-mail. The 68000 could handle saving .iff (8svx?) sound to hard disk, even with on-the-fly digitising the incoming analogue voice signal. The issue is for using vocice codecs... much like even an 040 has some issues with MP3 (de)compression, the overhead on real-time voice codec - esp with multiple calls - would prolly be more than the 060 could handle. I could be wrong, I just dont see an old CPU being up to the task.

I'll buy that.  I'm not sure what codec VoIP uses.  If it was something like AMR, I think an 060 would handle it just fine, but then how many channels, the TCP/IP stack, etc.

Would be fun to try, though, yeah?